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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2018

OpenBiodiv-O: ontology of the OpenBiodiv knowledge management system.

Viktor Senderov, Kiril Simov, Nico Franz, Pavel Stoev, Terry Catapano, Donat Agosti, Guido Sautter, Robert A Morris, Lyubomir Penev

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Article in Journal of biomedical semantics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Viktor SenderovPensoft Publishers, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski 12, Sofia, 1700, Bulgaria. vsenderov@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-3340-5963
Kiril SimovInstitute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Nico FranzArizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe Campus, Tempe, 4501, AZ, USA.
Pavel StoevPensoft Publishers, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski 12, Sofia, 1700, Bulgaria.
Terry CatapanoPlazi, Bern, Switzerland.
Donat AgostiPlazi, Bern, Switzerland.
Guido SautterPlazi, Bern, Switzerland.
Robert A MorrisUniversity of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, USA.
Lyubomir PenevPensoft Publishers, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski 12, Sofia, 1700, Bulgaria.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences · BGPensoft Publishers (Bulgaria) · BGArizona State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe biodiversity domain, and in particular biological taxonomy, is moving in the direction of semantization of its research outputs. The present work introduces OpenBiodiv-O, the ontology that serves as the basis of the OpenBiodiv Knowledge Management System. Our intent is to provide an ontology that fills the gaps between ontologies for biodiversity resources, such as DarwinCore-based ontologies, and semantic publishing ontologies, such as the SPAR Ontologies. We bridge this gap by providing an ontology focusing on biological taxonomy.

resultsOpenBiodiv-O introduces classes, properties, and axioms in the domains of scholarly biodiversity publishing and biological taxonomy and aligns them with several important domain ontologies (FaBiO, DoCO, DwC, Darwin-SW, NOMEN, ENVO). By doing so, it bridges the ontological gap across scholarly biodiversity publishing and biological taxonomy and allows for the creation of a Linked Open Dataset (LOD) of biodiversity information (a biodiversity knowledge graph) and enables the creation of the OpenBiodiv Knowledge Management System. A key feature of the ontology is that it is an ontology of the scientific process of biological taxonomy and not of any particular state of knowledge. This feature allows it to express a multiplicity of scientific opinions. The resulting OpenBiodiv knowledge system may gain a high level of trust in the scientific community as it does not force a scientific opinion on its users (e.g. practicing taxonomists, library researchers, etc.), but rather provides the tools for experts to encode different views as science progresses.

conclusionsOpenBiodiv-O provides a conceptual model of the structure of a biodiversity publication and the development of related taxonomic concepts. It also serves as the basis for the OpenBiodiv Knowledge Management System.

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Biological OntologiesBiodiversityClassificationSemanticsBiodiversityBiodiversity informaticsBiological systematicsConcept taxonomyData modelingKnowledge managementLinked open dataOntologyOWLRDFSemantic publishingSemantic webTaxonomy

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